Did Elvis Presley Have His Head Shaved When He Went Into The Service
A magazine encompass devoted to Elvis Presley is posted at the archway to the Army barbershop at Fort Chaffee where the newly inducted stone star got his fi rst military haircut in 1958.
FORT CHAFFEE -- Today it would be covered live on Play a joke on News, CNN and MSNBC (though probably not on C-SPAN). Color photos would go viral nearly instantly across the rippling universe of social media. The bailiwick might even take a selfie of his shearing.
On March 24, 1958, in the final monochrome decade earlier color TV, the event spawned mere snippets of blackness-and-white film shown hours after the evening news. Even so photographs, also in black and white, had to wait for the next editions of daily newspapers across the land.
What they portrayed was newly inducted Pvt. Elvis Presley getting his initial Ground forces haircut at Fort Chaffee. That clip job on the budding King of Rock 'n' Roll is presented with nostalgia-sparking detail at Chaffee Barbershop Museum on the onetime armed services base of operations southeast of Van Buren.
Opened in 2008, the museum is part of Chaffee Crossing Celebrated District, established as a commercial evolution after the fort was closed to active-duty service in 1995.
Also on the site is the Museum of Chaffee History, with unexpectedly interesting exhibits on the one-time Ground forces base of operations. Visitors are reminded that Fort Chaffee at various times housed German prisoners of war, South Vietnamese refugees, so-called Marielitos fleeing Fidel Castro's Republic of cuba, and survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Barber chairs are lined upwards in the room where Presley got his haircut on the day he was inducted. He'd been informed months earlier that he'd be drafted, and then given a delay in reporting to cease the Hollywood filming his fourth film, Rex Creole.
Propped in one chair is a cardboard silhouette of the 23-year-old rock star and barber Pete Peterson. As the photograph shows, Presley was spared the standard buzz cut that skinned new soldiers down to the scalp. He still could run a rummage through the hair left on his head, although the sideburns and duck-tail pompadour were gone. He'd asked for no special handling, but evidently got a bit of it here.
Ane photograph shows Presley blowing a wisp of hair from the palm of his hand as Peterson looks on. The stone star is said to have quipped: "Hair today, gone tomorrow" -- definitely a groan-worthy pun.
Presley spent merely iii days at Fort Chaffee earlier existence shipped to Fort Hood in Texas for basic training. He served nigh of his two Army years in Deutschland with the 3rd Armored Division, gaining promotion to sergeant.
The fascination with Presley's military life evidently continued during his service. Posted near the archway to the barbershop is the comprehend of a themed magazine, Elvis in the Army, devoted to the subject.
The event contained "150 pix" and "10 big stories." The topics included "His Hours of Tenderness and Turmoil," "His Mom -- in Living Retention" (she died while he was in the Army), "Scoops From Deutschland" and "Those Strange Dating Parties."
Chaffee Barbershop Museum, 7313 Terry St. in Chaffee Crossing Historic District, is open 9 a.m.-four p.thousand. Monday-Sat. Access is free; donations are appreciated.
To reach the site coming from fundamental Arkansas, take Interstate forty's Exit vii (Interstate 540) south. Leave I-540 at Exit 88 and go south on Arkansas 59 to Taylor Avenue in Barling. Turn left on Taylor and so correct on Terry Street.
For more data, phone call (479) 434-6774 or visit ChaffeeHistoricDistrict.org.
Manner on 07/26/2016
Source: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jul/26/elvis-haircut-shear-history-at-chaffee-/
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